Quote from: daviducsb on March 06, 2014, 01:17:42 AM

Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on March 05, 2014, 02:46:21 PM

Quote from: Joshuar on March 05, 2014, 02:43:03 PM

Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on March 05, 2014, 02:39:16 PM

TCP/IP will never go mainstream. It is just a prototype. The idea that a protocol that was state of the art in the 1970s will be used by billions of people in the 2010s is just stupid. By 1979 the internet hadn't become mainstream so obviously it was never going to happen. Something more efficient than the internet will come along and we will use that instead.

So you want to go that road huh? Compare Bitcoin to any other successfull sites since the year 200. I could name Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Spotify, the list goes on etc etc and want to know what all those sites have in common? They became successfull within a very short time and Mainstream. Bitcoin is supposed to be this new, next generation, of money handling, but has is a very long way off being adopted by the general public, who aren't programmers and tech guys. It's simply never going to get any higher in terms of popularity, too many flaws.

Bitcoin isn't a website, it is a protocol. Facebook, myspace, and twitter are still running on the flawed and ancient protocol that was around at the start of the internet.

The internet circa 1969

The internet circa 1977

That is right it took almost a decade to build it out to just a couple dozen nodes.

The internet circa 2000
http://mountpeaks.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/1069646562-lgl-2d-4096x40962.png

+100. Fabulous. Picture says more than 1,000 words! Op is a goof with little knowledge.

I am being too negative calling him a goof. He's young, he probably doesn't realize these things take time. A new payment protocol is much more complicated and time consuming than Facebook or Myspace, Josh. The internet http comparison is apt.